The Herd: The CHR’s Ukwanda joins a global project on climate change
Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) house artists, Ukwanda Puppets and Design Arts Collective have been commissioned to design and develop the prototypes for The Herd, a world-first arts intervention on climate change....
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Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair public lecture: Neither Here Nor There, by Rita Duffy.
The CHR is delighted to announce that the Maxeke–Robinson Research Chair, Rita Duffy, will be giving a public lecture as part of the CHR’s Winter School programme on Wednesday 24 July, at the Iyatsiba Lab, Woodstock....
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2025 African Critical Inquiry Workshop: We Need New Names
We are pleased to announce that the 2025 African Critical Inquiry (ACIP) Workshop will be We Need New Names: On Cultures of Care and Difficult Knowledge in African University Museums....
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The Other Universals Consortium and CODESRIA invite you to a webinar with Professor Mahmood Mamdani about his new book Neither Settler Nor Native:The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities.
Professor Patricia Hayes of the CHR will be in conversation with Professor Tamar Garb of UCL about Ambivalent: Photography and Visibility in African History
Friday February 5th marks the 40th anniversary for the Handspring Puppet Company, collaborators in the aesthetic endeavours of the CHR, most particularly as creative mentors to the Ukwanda Puppetry and Design Collective, as well as the Laboratory of Kinetic Objects (LoKO).